Barford Lakes Fishing Festivals

The Four day  Festival fished over four lakes, Willow, Railway, Colton and Barford Match Lake.  We had 52 anglers fish this year. 

Congratulations to local angler Matt Wiles (Wensum Valley Angling) who won with an impressive 3 section wins and a 3rd.  One point behind was young angler Will McCranor who fished a good festival and had 2 section wins, a 2nd and a third.  

From left to right

5^th - Dan Hull, 3^rd Steve Porter, 1^st – Matt Wiles, 2^nd Will Mcranor and 5^th Stu Elmar

The FULL RESULTS table can be found by clicking here.   Results below along with Matt's methods.

Thanks so much to all who came this year, was great fun as ever.  Big thanks to The Work Party guys, the local anglers who helped get the lakes looking more presentable, it's been a bit of an understaffed struggle this year - your help was very apprecited!

For those that didn't realise and wondered why - we charge a buffet and admin fee for the 4 day festival.  This fee covers the food and drinks we have at the end, which takes most of the day to prepare!  The Random Pairs voucher - a bit of fun event to give all the anglers in the table a chance of taking an envelope home!  We advertise the festival as 64 anglers (16 on each lake).  If we're short we adjust the payouts accordingly but try to keep the payouts as close to advertised as possible - we use the remaining admin money to bump these payments up.

The Random Pairs was won this year by Ray King and Steve Porter with a cumulative weight of 535lb 11ozs.  You both have a voucher for £40 in the Tackle Shop!  The results table can be found by clicking here

We've decided charity starts at home so have begun a Youth Angling Projects fund.  Big thanks to the guys from Leicester for their donation, Shane Trower, Andy Platten and Greg Twemlow who donated their shared section money and Matt Wiles for donating £50 from his winnings. Many thanks we raised £106 to go towards bait and rigs in order to keep our junior coaching sessions free of charge (they were always free it's just Barford Tackle and Lakes has sponsored them over the years lol).

Top 5 Overall - Four Day Festival 2016

1st Matt Wiles - 6 points - 356lb 6ozs
2nd - Will McCranor - 7 points - 288lb 15ozs
3rd - Steve Porter - 7 points - 282lb 1ozs
4th - Dan Hull - 8 points - 293lb - 9ozs
5th - Stuart Elmar - 8 points - 263lb 14ozs

Matt Wiles Methods

Day 1 – Colton peg 38

Caught 5 fish on the pellet feeder with 2mm pellet ont he feeder and 6mm pellet Hookbait.  5 further fish short on catmeat at 5metres

Day 2 – Railway peg 2

Pellet feeder to the tree stump with 6mm pellet hook bait.  Corn and worm over groundbait in the margins

Day 3 – Willow – peg 28

Pellet Feeder to the far bank with 6mm hook bait

Day 4 – Match Lake – peg 11

Pellet short with 6mm hook bait and shallow at 14.5mts with pellet.

Lake Results

Day 1

Match Lake
1st Dan Hull – 117 – 05 – peg 13
2nd Ben Smith – 69 – 11 – peg 1
3rd Laurie Jamieson – Price – 52 – 14 – peg 17

Colton Lake
1st – Matt Wiles – 84 – 04 – peg 38
2nd – Keith (Della) Pearson – 80 – 07
3rd - Ian Stripp – 73 – 04 – peg 5

Willow Lake
1st - Peter Keeler – 59 – 07 – peg 23
2nd - Stuart Elmar – 48 – 11 – peg 21
3rd - Terry Bollingbroke – 44 – 11 – peg 19

Railway Lake
1st - Geoff Border – 88 – 07 – peg 48
2nd- Will McCranor – 72 – 15 – peg 24
3rd - Clive Eversfield – 67 – 3 – peg 42

Day 2

Match Lake
1st - Shane Trower - 95 - 10 - peg 30
2nd - Marti Jermy 0 90 - 11 - peg 5
3rd - Nigel Smith - 72 - 00 - peg 17

Colton
1st - Will McCranor - 118 - 13 - peg 6
2nd - Wilf Pickle - 102 - 9 - peg 37
3rd - Steve Porter - 80 - 08 - peg 35

Willow
1st - Jess Knight - 101 - 04 - peg 23
2nd Della Pearson - 83 - 12 - 17
3rd - Aide Hull - 56 - 11 - peg 26

Railway
1st - Matt Wiles - 105 - 01 peg 2
2nd - Dan Hull - 71 - 10 - peg 12
3rd - Steve Jackson 0 63 - 03 - peg 18

Day 3

Match Lake
1st - Stu Elmar - 107 - 04 - peg 13
2nd - Keith Smith - 84 - 15 - peg 17
3rd - Bob Gill - 67 - 07 - peg 30

Willow
1st - Dan Hull - 78 - 12 -peg 26
2nd - Adam Major - 75 - 06 - peg 20
3rd - Gaz Saddler - 55 - 08 - peg 30

Colton
1st - Peter Keeler - 120 - 04 - peg 2
2nd - Geoff Border - 106 - 11 - peg 31
3rd - Marti Jermy - 84 - 14 - peg 33

Railway
1st - Laurie Jamieson-Price - 81 - 10 - peg 24
2nd - Kevin Nicholson - 70 - 13 - peg 2
3rd - Aide Hull - 67 - 12 - peg 42

Day 4

Match Lake
1st - Kev Orr - 184 - 05 - peg 3
2nd - Matt Wiles - 124 - 1 - peg 11
3rd - Jess Knights - 112 - 01 - peg 26

Willow Lake
Ray King - 99 - 1
Steve Porter - 77 -01
Will McCranor - 47 - 11

Colton Lake
Tobey Pepper - 100 - 06 - peg 37
Ben Smith - 87 - 07 - peg 8
Andy Platton - 79 - 14 - peg 3

Railway Lake
Paul Ashford - 82 - 02 - peg 8
Stu Elmar - 58 - 04 - peg 4
Nigel Smith - 54 - 00 - peg 2

Next year's fishing festival will be the same weekend which will be from Friday 11th August to Monday 14th August 2017

The results table after 3 days fishing the festival - please click here

The section draws can be found by clicking here.

We have 13 on a lake so there will be a 6 peg and 7 peg section on each. 

Match Lake

1, 3, 5, 7,  24, 26, 30 
 9, 11, 13, 17, 20, 22,

Colton Lake

31, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39
2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 10

Willow Lake

17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26
28, 29, 30, 31, 33 and 35

Railway Lake

2, 4, 8, 12, 18, 24, 28
42, 44, 46, 48, 52, 60 

Will post the section draw up shortly. 

I'll put it in a better format tomorrow but here's the section draw for this year's festival. 

Draw at Barford at 9.15am each day - cafe and shop open from 7.30am.  Please let me know if you need any bait.

Not long now!!!

Lakes are looking brilliant - thanks to the great effort and some awesome work parties!  Thank you guys.

Click here for the section draw

I am a little late with the festival draw this year - apologies.  We have 53 fishing and I will hopefully get the sesion draw done in the next day or so.  If you would like to give me a rough idea of what bait you need (maggot, caster and worm) and for what lakes I can then allocate your bait once the draw is complete.  

We've been busy getting the lakes and pegs ready, big thanks to some of the guys who have gone to great efforts on the work parties. 

Once the draw is done I'll post it up.  Lookling forward to seeing everyone.  The draw's are at Barford at 9.15am each day.  The Cafe and shop are open from 7.30am.